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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Poor Roxy. Not only did she have a sprained wrist on her birthday, but the cookie cake her friend Sarah purchased to cheer her up looked like...well, this:

Apparently this cookie place has a strict one-do-over-per-cookie policy, so "happy" was scraped off and redone, but "birtday" was left as is. That yellow powdery pile in a vaguely star-like shape is a nice addition, though.

Roxy, I'm not sure if you're giving this Wreck the thumbs up or if your injury prevents you from giving it the finger, but either way I hope a little cakey fame will help heal the hurts. Plus, I suppose it could've been worse: you might have received a Wreck while in the hospital.

ROFL! Now I am craving cookies *nomnomnom*.But seriously....from the rate we see misspellings, I am beginning to wonder if bakers should have a spelling test before they hire somebody, and the person's spelling grades pulled from kindergarten as a reference :PIt does look yummy though...I just might need to make cupcakes with powdered sugar frosting today...mmmm.

Anonymous 9:41, yes, a cookie cake is just as it sounds: it is a giant chocolate chip cookie that is iced like a cake. They are yummy, but this one makes me lose my appetite. :P I have had a LOT of cookie cakes in my day, but I have never seen anything powdery on one. Ugg.

I love cookies. I love frosting on cookies... but to mess this up and refuse to respell "birthday" properly?!?!? What kind of cheap crappy cake seller is that? I mean, just get another cookie and redo it, dang it.

Shouldn't cookie "cakes" belong in the same category as cupcake "cakes"?! They are both wreck-fugly, and I'm shocked (shocked and outraged) that our Cake Wrecks Guru doesn't make the wrecktastic connection!!

I agree about the messed up spelling -- lame. But cookie cakes are yummy. I don't think they really qualify as cakes (which doesn't mean wrecked ones don't belong on Cake Wrecks!), but they are totally yummy. I used to work at The Cookie Factory (when I was a teenager), which made the best cookie cakes. Mmmm.

I would disown anyone who thought they could pass off a chocolate chip cookie in place of my BIRTDAY cake. I'm not opposed to cookies in any way, but serve them in addition to the cake, not in place, cheapskates.

This is right up there with ice cream cake. I said I wanted cake and ice cream. Don't think those crunchies in the middle even remotely replace cake.

If CCCs are not acceptable, then this is SO way not acceptable! It's not even cake, it's a freakin' frosted cookie. I love me some chocolate chip cookies but I don't see how frosting glopped on improves them in any way.

I think that cookie cakes generally aren't considered as bad as cupcake cakes because they don't require an assload of frosted to look even (hell, they're usually not even completely frosted) and can be made into regular geometric shapes without looking really crappy. That's the theory, anyway.

I dunno, anonymous 4:22, I find ice cream cakes to be pretty awesome (the Dairy Queen ones, anyway). Personally, I can't stand ice cream and cake together; the textures are way too different to go together well.

Now, as for those heathens that make ice cream cakes with both ice cream and cake, well, that's just another story.

I don't think it's fair to come down on the people who ordered it. For all we know the birthday girl asked for a cookie cake. Same with ice cream cakes, I always ask for one for my birthday because I love them. But I do agree the outcome of this particular cookie cake is quite...well....wow.

To all you cookie cake haters, when my brother and I were little, we *requested* cookie cakes from our mom because they were soooo much better than plain old cake. And she made them from scratch and decorated them herself. I still have fond memories of my birthday cookies. So don't be hatin' on the giant cookies!

This one, though? Wow. Even my mom who had no cake decorating training whatsoever could do better than that.

I dropped in on a 'Roxy' and a friend had wondered if that was her in the picture ! ( gunchick ).Mother made something that was cake done as a cookie. Devil's Food cake mix on a cookie sheet in about a 4" circle and two of the resulting 'cakes' slathered together with marshmallow spread.

I like how they fixed the word "happy," but left the worth "birtday." I wonder how they screwed up "happy?" When I first saw this cake, I didn't realize it was a cookie cake and I thought it was one FLAT cake, lol.

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